THE Supreme Court has refused, on grounds including it does not make “futile orders”, to declare that planning decisions relating to a windfarm development on a mountain site at Derrybrien did not permit deforestation of more than 115,000 trees. The ...

A local residents' group has asked the Supreme Court to declare that planning decisions relating to a wind farm development on a mountain site at Derrybrien, Co Galway, did not permit the deforestation of more than 115,000 trees. The site was the scene ...

A SUPREME Court appeal in relation to the controversial Derrybrien Windfarm project is to be heard in Dublin today (Thursday), exactly eleven years to the day that the massive landslide began on the South Galway hillside. The 70 turbine project, up and ...

The court said that a proper environmental impact assessment should have been carried out before the project proceeded. This ruling relates to the Derrybrien wind farm project, the biggest ever wind farm in Ireland at the time and one of the largest in ...